48 - The Grateful Anniversary Episode

03/27/17 • 29 min

It’s been a whole year since The Thoughtful Travel Podcast launched and it has been an immensely fun and rewarding time! Episode 48 is the Grateful Anniversary Episode and Amanda starts off giving plenty of thank yous out to many people connected to this podcast, including Brooke and the fantastic Jackrabbit FM team, the dear old friends who agreed to be interviewed for the show before it even started, and above all, you amazing listeners who leave great reviews and chat with Amanda in the Thoughtful Travellers Facebook group and make all the work worthwhile.

Amanda's guests today are all people she has only met because she started The Thoughtful Travel Podcast - and she's so grateful to have got to know all these new friends. First up, Hayden Lee of the Travel Stories Podcast has a great tale to tell about choosing a fork in the road in Vietnam. Amanda then chats with Matt Treglia from Words With Winos about how he made the mammoth decision to give up a conventional career path and travel long-term. Finally, Amanda looks back to a chat she had a year ago with photographer Kiliii Yüyan about taking risks when we travel.

Links:

Hayden’s Travel Stories Podcast - http://travelstoriespodcast.com
Travel Stories Podcast on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/travel-stories-podcast/id1097413901?mt=2
Matt’s site Words with Winos - http://wordswithwinos.com
Words with Winos podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/words-with-winos-travel-podcast/id1144965534?mt=2
Kiliii Yüyan’s website - http://www.kiliii.com/
Kiliii Yüyan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kiliiiyuyan/
Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers
Tweet me @amandakendle
Hashtag #thoughtfultravelpod
Follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina
Show notes: http://notaballerina.com/48

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Links:

Hayden’s Travel Stories Podcast - http://travelstoriespodcast.com
Travel Stories Podcast on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/travel-stories-podcast/id1097413901?mt=2
Matt’s site Words with Winos - http://wordswithwinos.com
Words with Winos podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/words-with-winos-travel-podcast/id1144965534?mt=2
Kiliii Yüyan’s website - http://www.kiliii.com/
Kiliii Yüyan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kiliiiyuyan/
Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers
Tweet me @amandakendle
Hashtag #thoughtfultravelpod
Follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina
Show notes: http://notaballerina.com/48

Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Previous Episode

47 - Taking Tours on Your Travels

Loathe tours? Amanda knows many thoughtful travellers recoil at the thought of a month-long bus tour of Europe, but there is a time and place for shorter, smaller tours and that’s the topic of Episode 47 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast.

First up, novelist Natasha Lester tells tales of the amazing private tours she took through Paris, helping her to research the history of fashion in a way that Google could never do. Another Australian novelist, Rachael Johns, then chats with Amanda about the pros and cons of taking small tours - and gives some great examples of being a tourist in your own town too by joining some local tourist guide experiences.

Finally, Emma Mann talks with Amanda about how she’s leaning more towards joining small group tours when she travels solo, largely because it’s a great way to meet some like-minded fellow travellers, and Amanda is all for that!

Links:

Natasha Lester’s website - http://www.natashalester.com.au/
Natasha’s novel A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald - http://amzn.to/2kpLuVt
Natasha’s new novel Her Mother's Secret - http://amzn.to/2ljAPux
Rachael Johns’ website - http://www.rachaeljohns.com/
Rachael’s recent novel The Patterson Girls - http://amzn.to/2nqAbKl
Emma Mann at The Vagabond Feminist http://thevagabondfeminist.wordpress.com/
Emma’s Flying Foodie blog - https://flyingfoodieadventures.com
Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers
Tweet me @amandakendle
Hashtag #thoughtfultravelpod
Follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina
Show notes: http://notaballerina.com/47

Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/

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Next Episode

49 - Understanding History Through Travel

History can really come alive when you travel to the place where it happened. Episode 49 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast is all about understanding history through travel, and Amanda talks with three history-lovers who have had great experiences learning about history while they travel.

Zoë Dawes inherited a love of history from her father, and today when she travels she is always on the lookout for an opportunity to explore some interesting aspects of her destination’s history.

Historical novelist Kate Forsyth has a clear need to travel to learn more about the history of the places she sets her books in, and describes her experiences in Venice as a great example. Finally, novelist Sarah Ridout also explains how her experiences living in historically significant places have shaped both her knowledge and how she writes her novels.

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